Pokemon Go

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Oh man... I just found out about Pokemon Go. This looks amazing! For decades people have said "I wish I could play pokemon in real life" well, this is pretty damn close

You can get an interactive Pokemon game on your phone that responds to where you are in real life, you have to go to water areas to get water pokemon, it will signal when you're near other players playing on their phone, you can set up gyms and stuff.

To throw a curveball you can shake the ball until it sparkles, this will give the throw a lot of spin so it might take some getting used to. Haven't discovered benefits of making the pokeball sparkle.

The egg menu is swiped to from your pokemon menu. You have one permanent incubator but you can obtain disposable ones with limited uses to hatch multiple eggs at the same time.

Pokemon of the same species can have different moves The color of the circle when you are catching a pokemon reveals the difficult of catching it (green/yellow/orange/red)

I've found the GPS system a little sketchy, it doesn't seem to work perfectly, this could just be related to server stress.

Once you are level five you choose a faction. This decides what color your gyms are, ALL gyms of your faction color are allies, the greyish gyms are unclaimed, ALL other gyms are rivals.

Fighting an allied gym is called "training", you can lose etc here but your pokemon cannot faint in training and winning gives you a bit of exp and prestige for you gym. Losing in a rival gym faints your pokemon and they can only be revived with items.

Prestige is best thought of as life points for your gym. If a rival faction beats your gym enough times you run out and are evicted from the gym which becomes up for grabs again.

You can only place one pokemon per player in a gym, so if you have friends you can stack a strong team in a single gym to protect your turf.

When your gym is defeated and the pokemon in it are evicted they return to your party.

Typing does matter (Electric beats water) though there seems to be some hidden values as well for things like how fast a pokemon attacks, Seadra in particular is really OP feeling.

In the 4 hours I played I used about 80% of my iPhone 5s' battery and only 23MB of data.

Stardust is a currency used to power up any pokemon, it is acquired by catching any pokemon. Catching a pokemon for the first time or with special throws will give you a bonus.

Candies are a currency used to power up and/or evolve a pokemon. It is acquired by catching pokemon or transferring them to Prof. Willow. You will only get candies of the species of pokemon in either method and the species' candy can be used on evolutions (A nidoran candy can be used to power up a nidorino/nidoking).

Pokestops recharge every 5 minutes with no daily limits.

Also, I want to add that if you have Pokemon occupying a gym, you can collect rewards! Go to Shop, and on the top right you will see a circle with a number on it. The number reflects how many Pokemon are occupying gyms. You get 10 Pokecoins per Pokemon and I forgot how much stardust, 400 each I want to say? Can't recall, I didn't realize what that was. Anyway, you can only "cash out" once every 21 hours apparently.Credit to ArturPrakapasConfirmed: you receive 10 Pokecoins and 500 stardust per pokemon placed in a gym.

You can only cash in on 10 gyms max for a total of 100 pokecoins and 5000 stardustCredit to Xeroith

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It's pretty shallow and I don't think it has longevity built into it, but the potential is pretty huge. If they add in trading, shiny pokemon, improve the battle system, increase stops + gyms for rural areas, etc, then it can be a long lasting awesome game. I'm curious to see what they do with it to keep the 'dangling carrot' in front of us, though.

I love the intense customization, breeding and competitive battling of the regular handheld games. If they can match that even at all, even a fraction of that, I'll probably play this "forever". But if they don't, I think the clunky gym battling as your own form of battling will get old after a few months.

We'll see! For now:

Hatched this 10kg egg and got a Snorlax around 500, used candies on him and got him nice and high. Also did the Pidgey/Lucky Egg thing for a couple decent levels, hence the Pidgeottos.

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I was riding my bike through a local park today and this girl was looking down at her phone on the other side of the path and she looked up and asked "Pokemon Go?" as I came by. This game brings people together!